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Story: Further details of Men who hunted lions with bones
Title
Further details of Men who hunted lions with bones
Collection
Summary
(Further details of the story of the men who hunted with bones.) The elder brother waits at home for his younger brother to return from hunting Lions. He sees the Lion's eyes shining and thinks they are stars and they approach and seize him. There follows a discussion of the bones the brothers made into knobkerries in order to hunt Lions.
Comments
1) See also Men who hunted lions with bones, 2) p.7572v: the elder brother's song; the people of the Early Race call the lion ||kuamma, 3) This story is found in Book VIII-18
Contributors
|han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)
Date
26 September 1878 (story finished on or about)
Categories
Keywords
Early Race (or First Bushmen) , Early Race (and further details of the men who hunted Lions with bones) , Early Race (and how the people called the lion ||kuamma) , hunting (and further details of the men who hunted Lions with bones) , hunting (and the Early Race) , lion (its nature and habits) , lion (remains dead) , lion (can feign death) , lion (its eyes are thought to be stars) , lion (its eyes 'shining approach') , lion (the name of) , lion (the people of the Early Race called it ||kuamma) , lion (bones that can kill it or knock it down) , lion (and bones made into knobkerries) , lion (and further details of the men who hunted Lions with bones) , lion (the hunting and eating of) , lion (and the younger brother's wind) , bones (of the giraffe are hard) , bones (of the elephant are hard) , bones (of the ostrich are soft) , bones (further details about men who hunted Lions with) , bones (made into knobkerries) , bones (thigh) , bones (that can knock a lion down and kill it) , bones (the efficacy of hunting with different) , song (of the man who hunted Lions with bones) , song (the elder brother's) , song (of the younger brother's family) , song (and further details of the men who hunted Lions with bones) , foolish (men who hunted Lions with bones - further details) , foolish (the younger brother who beat the Lion with a soft ostrich bone) , wind (the younger brother's) , wind (of a man who has killed a lion) , wind (of a man who has been killed by a lion) , wind (and further details of the men who hunted Lions with bones) , stars (the lion's eyes resemble) , stars (the eyes of the two Lions resemble) , stars (and further details of the men who hunted Lions with bones) , death (of the men who hunted Lions with bones - further details) , knobkerrie (made of bones) , knobkerrie (used to kill lions) , knobkerrie (used by the men who hunted Lions with bones - further details) , knobkerrie (that can knock down a lion) , names (of different winds) , names (people call the lion ||kuamma) , names (and further details of the men who hunted Lions with bones)
Story Pages
7573-7588
